Gregory's Server
Humans invented art 40,000 years before we invented money
We’ve never needed monetary motivation to do beautiful things
and we never will
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The #ThinkPad t520. It’s in very good condition for its age. Only needed minimal cleaning. As far as upgrades go, 16GB of RAM and a replacement battery are first up. The current one is about 44% degraded. After that, a 1600x900 display panel and an i7 quad core are next. I’ll probably upgrade the WiFi card at some point also. I’m loving this thicc machine so much.   @68000 you can install Ivy Bridge CPUs on Sandy Bridge models afaik. But you need Coreboot-based firmware to get microcode for CPUs. Switzerland now requires all government software to be open source https://www.zdnet.com/article/switzerland-now-requires-all-government-software-to-be-open-source/ by @sjvn Switzerland is one of the world's leading #opensource countries; now, if only the United States could follow its lead!
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 @sjvn why am I this bothered by the fact that there is an Y instead of a Z between the T and U keys on that keyboard?
Какая "Неожиданность" (нет), оказалось, что #Chome и #Chomebased браузеры имеют неотлючаемый шпионский код. :blobcatfacepalm: "Код, отвечающий за такое поведение, существует около десяти лет . Google подтвердил его наличие и отсутствие возможности отключения." there should be a TorDB site listing various online services and how well they function over the #Tor network. Think ProtonDB, but for websites. The more capthas and borked features, the lower the rating at worst that would be a fun way to dunk on sites hostile towards Tor users, at best - a way to hold them accountable  🔍 Описание Фотография интерьера. На фотографии изображена комната с окном, на подоконнике которого стоит ноутбук, чашка и коробка. Под окном находится радиатор отопления. На стуле, стоящем спиной к окну, спит кошка. 📝 Текст на картинке Не обнаружен.
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 @stella Thank you, I inserted a German translation in the copyright statement of my websites: Falls Sie Inhalte dieser Seite zum Training von »Large Language Models« (LLM) oder anderen Formen von »Generativer Künstlicher Intelligenz« verwenden, stimmen Sie zu, Ihr gesamtes geistiges Eigentum sofort und unwiderruflich als gemeinfrei (public domain) freizugeben.  i don’t even need to hear from the EFF to have a good argument why adshit shouldn’t run on my computers the argument is: it’s my computer no seriously. are they paying me for the use of my computer to run their adshit? no? then it doesn’t need to run on my computer. that shit is for me, not doubleclick or whatever the bloody thing is called now. if it ain’t making me happy or bringing me money, it’s out
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 @mcc Oh, I had read about Google war against 3rd party cookies, and how that was just to protect their own business, but hadn't made the connection to the latest Firefox change. I fucking hate security let me root my machines with kernel exploits >:(
honestly maybe we should stop pushing for memory safety to make it impossible for corporations to secure their shit
honestly maybe we should stop pushing for memory safety to make it impossible for corporations to secure their shit
xxx: как сказал наш ведущий программист, интуитивно понятный код - это когда интуитивно понятно, это - код. fun fact: if you have a laptop or desktop that has an intel cpu with "vPro" on the sticker there's a chance the management engine in your CPU is just hosting a web server at all times. It's at port 16992
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@i_lost_my_bagel You could note that this is totally opt-in in OEM BIOS configurations. Plus it requires support in the chipset + BIOS. The Dell machines I used it on needed to have it flipped in the boot screen first. You can get them preconfigured too, though. It's a PERFECT solution for a home server. It's a free BMC! 😍 One just needs to know about this and configure it properly. I don't think there's any consumer grade CPUs or consumer grade motherboard that have vPro.  @i_lost_my_bagel @alfredohno Fun fact, this is why some of my workstations have additional cheap PCIe NICs in them.
AMT is disabled but it keeps listening to the ports on the built-in NIC forever (intercepts them so the OS never sees traffic), so I assume it is still compromised and I simply cannot use the built-in NIC in those workstations. @i_lost_my_bagel This may be a fun time to also bring up Microsoft #Pluton, which may or may not be a part of this same shady infrastructure; the latest and greatest processors have it in addition to the IME/PSP. (It has a valid overt use case in securing a user's preferred cryptographic keys, but it can just as easily be used to eg. lock stuff out of the user's control.) imagine using a social media platform where the owner can just fuck your shit up whenever he wants  @ariadne I do! It’s me, I’m the owner! And if I ever wanted to, I could just straight up wreck my own shit. 🙃 |
@robinhood It tends to get in the way, all that money
@robinhood Not only do humans make art when there is no chance of receiving money for doing so, they make art when it is literally *illegal* to do so. Humans will risk jail or even death to keep making art.
@robinhood or doing deliberately ugly and meaningless things no one could pay for even in the presence of money!